The Catmage Chronicles
Andy thought he was going crazy when a talking cat showed up at his front door. He couldn’t have been more wrong.Goldeneyes is a Catmage – a cat with human intelligence and magical abilities. Andy is an eighth grader who is smart, impulsive, and trying to avoid the school bully at all costs. A prophecy threw them together. There’s just one problem: Goldeneyes can’t stand humans.The Catmage world is heading toward war. Goldeneyes and Andy must try to stop the enemy from getting stronger. And they must save a powerful Catmage who’s been kidnapped. For Goldeneyes, it’s personal. That Catmage is her grandmother.Andy and Goldeneyes must try to put aside their differences. If they can’t, the enemy will soon be too powerful to defeat…
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Did I write three …
… articles by George Will. I mean 4. Today in Many possible Israeli concessions would be suicidal George Will writes: Twenty-one Israeli settlements were dismantled; even the bodies of Israelis buried in Gaza were removed. After a deeply flawed 2006 … Continue reading
Ho hum, another condemnation of Israel by the UN
Not content to have blown a single incident up out of all proportion, the New York Times is now acting as a press agency for the United Nations. In Report Criticizes Gaza Restrictions, Ethan Bronner reported: A United Nations report … Continue reading
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Third in a series by George Will
In recent weeks, George Will has written two excellent columns about Israel and the Middle East: Netanyahu, the anti-Obama and Netanyahu’s warning. Today, he presents Skip the lecture on Israel’s “risks for peace”: The intifada was launched by the late … Continue reading
Disparate columnists notice the anti-Israel trend
Though I already wrote about this, a week and a half ago Thomas Friedman, in Steal this movie wrote: I write about this now because there is something foul in the air. It is a trend, both deliberate and inadvertent, … Continue reading
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Shades of moderation
Two weeks ago Jeffrey Goldberg wrote, If He Could, Bin Laden Would Bomb the Cordoba Initiative (via memeorandum): This seems like such an obvious point, but it is apparently not obvious to the many people who oppose the Cordoba Initiative’s … Continue reading
Harvard divests .. er .. not so fast
According to Globes: (via memeorandum) In another blow to Israeli shares, the Harvard Management Company notified the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Friday that it had sold all its holdings in Israeli companies during the second quarter of … Continue reading
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Not a matter of freedom, but of sensitivity
According to the Washington Post: Two Republican members of Congress, Reps. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen of Florida and Peter T. King of New York, called government sponsorship of Rauf’s trip “unacceptable” in a joint statement. They said he had suggested in at … Continue reading
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Sleeping with fishes, Gaza style
Arutz-7 quotes Elder of Ziyon about the worsening security situation in Gaza. Arutz-7 quotes Debka to the effect that this is the result of a proxy power struggle between Iran (which supports Islamic Jihad) and Syria (which supports Hamas). An … Continue reading
You’re one of the destructive ones Tom
I’m happy today that Thomas Friedman appreciates the difference between “constructive” and “destructive” critics of Israel. I write about this now because there is something foul in the air. It is a trend, both deliberate and inadvertent, to delegitimize Israel … Continue reading
The trouble beneath the surface
Meryl wrote: But the early stories that came out heavily supported Lebanon’s claim that Israeli forces were over the border. Oh, the next graf almost always issued the Israeli denial, but that’s how journalism works: When you want someone to … Continue reading
It wasn’t 800 years it was 436, and it was peaceful if you consider a “convert or die” ultimatum peaceful
A recent Washington Post editorial about the “Ground Zero mosque” observed: It’s fine that Imam Rauf decided to call his organization the Cordoba Initiative; Cordova, Spain is an important place of history that merits study and draws tourists to Spain. … Continue reading
Reporting on yesterday’s Israel-Lebanon clash
I was very frustrated yesterday when I read the account of the clash at the Israeli border with Lebanon in the New York Times. Even as more and more information was filtering out showing that the firing had clearly started … Continue reading
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Zabla it ain’t
There’s a concept in Jewish law of “zeh borer lo echad” or “each one chooses one.” In Hebrew, the term is shortened to its acronym, “zabla.” When two litigants have a court case requiring three judges, each litigant chooses a … Continue reading
The thrill of being needed
In an op-ed today, Efraim Karsh writes about “The Palesitnians alone.” The thrust of his article is that over the years the Palestinian cause has been adopted by those who don’t have Palestinian interests in mind. Not surprisingly, the Arab … Continue reading
Comfort from distorted history
A couple of articles, from differing perspectives, on how blaming Israel for the plight of the Palestinians hurts the cause of peace. In the Jerusalem Post Mudar Zahran writes: The demonization of Israel by the global media has greatly harmed … Continue reading